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horizontal output stage will greatly

increase the losses in the LOPT's

primary circuit. That is, they lower

the Q.

We chose the principle of `ring'

testing as the basis for this instru-

ment because it's easy to implement

with relatively simple circuitry and

common components, and produces

predictable results with no need for

calibration.

`Ring' testing gets its name from

the fact that when a fast pulse is

applied to the primary winding of

the LOPT, the total inductance and

capacitance in the circuit will produce an

electrical `ring' - a decaying AC voltage

which can have a duration of a dozen or

more cycles before it reaches a low

value. It's the electrical equivalent of tap-

ping an empty glass; in each case, an

energy impulse generates damped oscil-lations.

Waveform `A' in Fig.1 shows the HOT

collector voltage waveform in a typical

fault-free TV (a General Electric

TC63L1 in this case), in response to a

pulse from this tester. However if the

losses in the horizontal output circuit are

increased, the amplitude of the `ringing'

waveform will decay much more quick-

ly. Waveform `B' shows the effect of a

shorted rectifier diode on one LOPT sec-

ondary winding of the same TV, but notethat a shorted LOPT winding or several

other faults would have a similar effect.

A collector-emitter short in the HOT

or a shorted tuning capacitor will result

in no ringing at all, indicating a really

major fault.

So to do an initial check of a horizon-

tal output stage, with this tester, you first

make sure the TV or monitor is de-ener-

gised(!). Then you simply switch the

tester on, connect the ground lead to the

chassis and the `HOT Collector' lead to

the horizontal output transistor's collec-

tor. One LED will illuminate for each

`ring' cycle above about 15% of the ini-

tial pulse value, and in general if four or

more LEDs are glowing, the horizontal

output stage is OK.We'll talk more about using the tester

later, after the circuit description. For the

moment though, it's worth mentioning

that because the tester uses a low-voltage

testing pulse, it is suitable for testing

LOPTs `in circuit' - i.e., without having

to disconnect the yoke or other connec-

tions.

Circuit description

At first glance the circuit in Fig.2

might look a bit complicated, but it real-ly consists of three quite simple sections.

These are the low frequency pulse gener-

ator, the ring amplitude comparator and

the LED bar-graph display. We'll now

look at these in turn.

1. The low frequency pulse genera-

tor: Voltage comparator IC1a is set up as

a low frequency oscillator, whose output

on pin 7 is normally pulled up to essen-

tially the positive supply rail by R6 and

R7. Due to the time constants produced

by C2, R4 and R5/D1, pin 7 pulses

down to ground potential for about

2ms every 100ms, and it's during

these low-going 2ms pulses that

each ring test occurs.

When IC1 pin 7 drops low, Q1 is

driven into saturation by its base

current flowing in R7, and its col-

lector voltage jumps to the +6V

supply, which makes two things

happen. First, C6 in collaboration

with R16 sends a positive pulse of

about 5us duration to the reset pins

of four-bit shift registers IC2a and

IC2b, which drives all their outputs

to a low state - switching off all the

LEDs, in readiness for a new ring test.

At the same time, about 20mA flows

through R8, driving D2 into a low

impedance state and dropping about

650mV across it. The voltage step across

D2 is coupled via C3 to the test leads andthe LOPT primary winding, causing this

circuit to ring' a bit below its natural res-

onant frequency due to the presence of

C3 (which functions as the resonating

capacitor when testing an LOPT on its

own).

2. The ring amplitude comparator:

The `ringing' waveform is coupled by C4

to the inverting input of comparator

IC1b, which is DC biased to about

+490mV by the junction of R11 and R12.

D3 is constantly forward-biased by about1mA flowing through R10, and its entire

voltage drop of about 600mV is applied

to IC1b's non-inverting input as a refer-

ence voltage, via R13. R14 produces a

small amount of positive feedback

around IC1b, ensuring that its output

switches cleanly between its low and

high voltage levels.

The result of all this is that an inverted

and squared-up version of the ringing

waveform appears at the output of IC1b,

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FIg.1: Ringing waveforms from good (top) andshorted winding line output transformers, inresponse to the testers pulse.


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until the ringing amplitude has decayed

down to about 15% of its initial value.

This square wave is connected straight to

the clock inputs of shift registers IC2a

and IC2b.

3. The LED bargraph display: IC2

consists of a pair of identical four-bit

serial-in/parallel-out shift registers, con-

nected to form a single eight-bit unit,

with each output driving one LED in the

`bargraph' display via resistors R17 to

R24. The serial data input of the first

stage (pin 15) is permanently connected

to the positive supply, or logic 1.

One measurement

For the first 5us after the commence-

ment of a new 2ms measuring pulse,

both shift registers are reset to zeroes on

all outputs, as described earlier. At the

same time the initial positive pulse

applied to the LOPT drives IC1b's out-

put, connected to both shift registers'

clock inputs, to a low (logic 0) level -

unless the test leads are shorted.

If the LOPT primary circuit is OK, it

will ring during the next several hundred

microseconds. For each ring above about

15% of its initial value, it will cause a

high-going pulse to be applied to the

shift register clock inputs, resulting in

the logic 1 on IC2 pin 15 being moved

one shift register stage further along. It

doesn't matter if the LOPT rings more

than eight times - all LEDs will still

remain illuminated.

So the overall result is that one LED

illuminates for each LOPT ring cycle

above 15% of the initial level, and this

condition remains until the start of the

next 2ms measuring pulse. Phew!

Usage & limitations

In order to assess the usefulness of thisdesign, we gave several prototype

LOPT/FBT testers to technician friends

to evaluate for many months, then asked

for their comments and thoughts on how

to put the tester to best use.

The first response is from Larry Sabo,

an experienced monitor technician in

Ottawa, Canada who also suggested the

front panel layout:

One of the first things I do to check out

a monitor is connect the tester between

the HOT collector and ground. If no or

only a few LEDs light, I check the HOT,

damper diodes and tuning caps for

shorts using a DMM. If these are OK, I

check for an open fusible resistor in the

circuit feeding B+ to the LOPT, and for

shorts/leakage in diodes on the LOPT

secondaries. I also check the bypass

capacitor on the DC supply to the LOPT

primary for excessive ESR.

If these check OK, I ring the horizontal

yoke with its connector unplugged. It will

normally ring seven times on its own. If

the yoke rings OK, I unsolder all but the

LOPT primary winding and ground pins,

and ring the primary. If the primary still

rings low with everything else discon-

nected, the LOPT is probably defective.

Most LOPTs on their own will ring 8+

times, but some ring only four or five,

even when they are perfectly normal. Soit is prudent to confirm the diagnosis by

ringing an identical known-good LOPT,

if at all possible.

Sometimes an LOPT is defective, but

still rings normally with the tester, e.g.

due to leakage or arcing that only occurs

at full operating voltage. The problem

will sometimes be manifest by heavy

loading of the B+ supply, spurious ring-

ing and/or reduced voltages on the HOT

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Fig.3: Use this PCB overlay and the facing photo as a guide in assembling thetester.

Resistors(All 5% 0.25W carbon)R1,2,3,14 1M

R4 2.2MR5,16 47kR6,7,9,

R17-24 1kR8 270 ohmsR10,15 4.7k

R11 33kR12 150kR13 10k

CapacitorsC1 100uF 16/25VW

RB electrolyticC2,3,5,7 0.047uF MKTC4 0.01uF MKTC6 100pF disc ceramic

SemiconductorsD1,2,3 1N914 / 1N4148 silicon

diodeIC1 LM393 dual comparator

IC2 4015 / MC14015 / CD4015dual 4-bit shift register

LED1,2,3 Rectangular red LEDLED4,5 Rectangular yellow LED

LED6,7,8 Rectangular green LEDQ1 BC328 / 2N5819 PNP

silicon transistor

MiscellaneousPCB, ZA1137 51 x 76mm; small (UB3)plastic case, 130 x 68 x 41mm (DSE H-

2853); front panel; battery holder for 4 xAAA cells; battery snap ; power switch,push on/off; one DIP8 IC socket, one

DIP16; 4 x tapped spacers; screws,

nuts and washers (see Screw size andallocation guide); 1 x red, 1 x black 4mm

banana sockets; test leads with 4mmbanana plugs; double-sided adhesivetape; wire, PCB pins, solder and instruc-

tions.

Parts List


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collector, or excessively high EHT result-

ing in HV shut-down.

Because this tester uses impulses of

only 650mV to minimize the forward

biasing of semiconductors, such defects

will not be reflected in the ring count.

Under these circumstances, I check for

measurable leakage resistance between

the EHT cap and the other LOPT pins. It

should be unmeasurable, otherwise the

LOPT is defective.

If I have gone through the above tests

and have these symptoms and a normal

ring count on the tester, the diagnosis

can usually be confirmed only by substi-

tuting a known-good identical LOPT, or

by testing with a chopper similar to the

one described in Sam Goldwasser's

Electronics Repair FAQ, located on the

Internet at http://pacwest.net/byron13/

sam/flytest.htm.

Something else I do when testing aLOPT is to supply it with a reduced B+

to enable scoping the HOT and measur-

ing EHT (in situations where the monitor

goes into HV shutdown). To reduce the

B+, I use two light bulbs in series, one

end to B+ supply, centre-tap to LOPT B+

connection, other end to ground. One

bulb is 60 watts, the other is 100, so I can

reverse the end leads and increase or

decrease the B+ value used in testing.

At the outset, when I have power sup-

ply cycling but have confirmed there areno shorts from HOT-C to ground, I sub-

stitute a dummy load (60W bulb) for the

LOPT where the B+ enters, to see if the

power supply works with the LOPT out

of the equation.

Overall, the LOPT tester can identifyabout 80% of LOPT failures. When try-

ing to solve a puzzle, if someone offers

information that is right 80% of the time,

it's a lot better than having to guess

100% of the time, especially if the ante is

the price of a LOPT and wasted, valu-

able time.

Michael Caplan does general electron-

ic servicing in Ottawa, and added the fol-

lowing useful points in relation to TVs:

It's pretty straightforward to use, with

the usual precautions of ensuring thatthe under-test unit power is off and any

caps are discharged.

When testing an LOPT in circuit, it

might be necessary to disconnect some of

the LOPT terminals, and/or yoke plugs

that could load it down and upset the

readings. The tester will often not detect

bad HV diodes in integrated split-diode

LOPT units, nor shorts/arcing that is

voltage dependent - but then no other

passive tester does either.

I have found it useful for checking TV

deflection yokes, both horizontal andvertical. A good yoke lights at least five

and typically the full eight LEDs.

However, many yokes have built-in par-

allel or series damping resistors, and

these must be temporarily disconnected.

Otherwise the reading will be low, even

though the winding itself is fine.

The tester can be used for checking

high-Q transformers such as those used

in SMPS's. However, my experience has

shown that it will not provide more than

a two or three LED indication for good

TV horizontal drive transformers. It can

be used for these, however - to indicate

shorts (no LEDs lit). On the other hand

the ESR Meter (Dick Smith catalog num-

ber K-7204) can do much the same with

these low resistance transformers.

Wayne Scicluna services TVs in

Sydney, and is the technician who talked

me into developing the tester in the first

place. Here are his hints:

If you've already checked for the more

obvious leaky and shorted semiconduc-

tors and capacitors etc., and are still get-

ting a low reading on the tester, there aresome other traps to avoid.

You need to get a good connection with

the test leads, because contact resistance

can cause a low reading. The same

applies to defective solder joints in the

horizontal output stage, especially on the

LOPT itself and HOT. In fact connecting

the tester with clip leads, flexing the

board and wiggling components is a

good way to show up bad solder joints in

this area.

Body conductivity can also cause alower than normal reading if you're

touching the test leads and your skin is

damp. Low readings can also be caused

by having the test leads reversed, i.e.,

connecting 'HOT Collector' to chassis,

and by faults in an external voltage

tripler.

How to build it

Before soldering anything to the print-

ed circuit board, hold it up to a bright

light and examine the copper side care-

fully for fine track breaks and especiallywhiskers or bridges - particularly where

tracks pass close to component solder

pads.

Referring to the board overlay in Fig.3,

begin installing the components, starting

with the resistors and diodes and work-

ing your way up to the tall ones including

the four PCB pins for `GND', `HOT' and

`+6V' terminal connections- but leaving

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Value 4 Band (1%) 5 Band (1%)

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Resistor Colour Codes

Printed Circuit Board to Spacers4 x Screw M3 x 6mm (zinc plated)

Front Panel to Spacers4 x Screw Countersunk M3 x 6mm (Blk)

Front Panel To Case4 x Screw Countersunk No4 x 6mm (Blk)

Screw Size and AllocationGuide

Value IEC Code EIA Code

100pF 100p 101K0.01uF 10n 103K0.047uF 47n 473K

Capacitor Codes

The assembled PCB, which supportsvirtually all of the circuitry.


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the LEDs off the board for now. Take

care with the orientation of the polarised

components, including the IC sockets.

With everything but the LEDs installed

on the PCB, once again illuminate it

from the top, and check for and correct

any solder bridges or other problems.

Now turn your attention to the front

panel, mounting the banana sockets and

the power switch in their respective

holes.

Attach the tapped spacers to the cor-ners of the board using plain 3mm

screws, and solder long component lead

offcuts to the `GND', `HOT Collector'

and `+' solder pads, followed by the bat-

tery snap's black wire to the `-' pad.

Then, without soldering them, poke the

leads of all the LEDs through their

respective holes in the board. Make sure

the coloured LEDs are in their correct

places, and that all the (long) anode and

(short) cathode leads are correctly orient-

ed as shown in Fig.3.

Using black countersunk 3mm screws,attach the front panel to the board assem-

bly and place the whole thing face-down

on a soft flat surface. Manoeuvre all of

the LEDs into their cutouts in the front

panel, and push each LED down slightly

to ensure its face is level with the front of

the panel. In the unlikely event that a

LED won't fit, use a small file or similar

to remove the excess powder coating

inside the hole.

Now solder all the LEDs into place,

then connect the test lead sockets and theclosest terminal of the power switch to

their respective wires from the board,

and finally the red battery snap wire to

the free switch contact (Ref. to Fig.4.

wiring diagram).

Snip off the battery holder's PCB

mounting pins, then install four `AAA'

cells into it. Connect the battery snap to

the terminals, and switch the unit on. Ifeverything's OK then the bottom red (`1')

LED will illuminate, and shorting the

test leads will cause it to go off.

An effective way to test the unit is to

connect the test leads to the primary

winding of a known good LOPT out of

circuit, which should bring all eight

LEDs on. Then thread a loop of solder

around the ferrite core of the LOPT(simulating a single shorted turn), and

the LED count should drop to 1-3 as the

loop is closed.

If everything's OK, use double-sided

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Fig.4: Shows how the battery snap (positive lead) is wired through the switch tothe printed circuit board. Note, as the component overlay shown is viewed fromthe copper side of the PCB, wiring terminations for the Power and HotCollector/GND should be made to the PCB pins on the component side of theboard.


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adhesive tape to stick the battery holder

into the bottom of the case, with the cells

aligned in a `north-south' direction for

easiest access. All that remains to be

done now is to screw the front panel into

place and try out your tester on some

LOPTs and their associated circuitry.

Finally, our sincere thanks to Larry

Sabo, Michael Caplan and Wayne

Scicluna for their assistance in complet-

ing this project. We couldn't have done it

without you!

Case

Battery holder

PCB

Front panel

M3 x 6mmCountersunk

screw

Double-sidedtape

Case pillar

No4 x 6mm

CountersunkS/T screw

Bananasocket

M3 x 6mmPan head

screw

Spacer

Fig.5: Shows how the PCB with LEDs is mounted to the frontpanel using 19mm hex tapped spacers. The battery holder isfixed to the bottom of the case by two pieces of double-sizedtape.

Winding a Test Coil

In order for constructors to test the unit once assembled we have provided details

and parts to construct a simple transformer coil which enables the circuit to ring all

'8' LEDs.

Please refer to the following for coil details.

1.Using the balun core provided, wind around 45 turns (tightly wound) through

the two centre holes as shown in the accompanied photo.

2.Once completed trim lead length to approximately 50mm and clean the enamel

from each lead end so that a positive connection can be made.3.Now test the coil, the unit should display and ring all '8' LEDs. By simply feed-

ing through an additional winding and shorting the ends will reduce the rings to

either 1 or 2 LEDs giving a good indication that the unit is working correctly.

Parts Supplied

1 x Balun core (R 5440)

1 x Enamel copper wire (30B&S or 0.25mm dia x 2 metres)

Assembly Notes

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